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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMAPONTIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Sacoglossa (Superorder)
> Plakobranchoidea (Superfamily)
> Limapontiidae (Family)
> Ercolania (Genus)
> felina (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Stiliger (Ercolania) Trinchese, 1872
Synonymised Names:
=Calliopaea felina Hutton, 1882
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Taxonomy
Family:
LIMAPONTIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Heterobranchia (Subclass)
> Euthyneura (Infraclass)
> Tectipleura (Subterclass)
> Sacoglossa (Superorder)
> Plakobranchoidea (Superfamily)
> Limapontiidae (Family)
> Ercolania (Genus)
> felina (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Stiliger (Ercolania) Trinchese, 1872
Synonymised Names:
=Calliopaea felina Hutton, 1882
Details: Ercolania felina (Hutton, 1882)
Size/Grows to:
Animal 10mm
Distribution:
North and South Islands. On green filamentous algae Chaetomorpha
Geographical Range:
ACF
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic, Shell absent
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Morley, M.S., Hayward, B.W. 2015 Intertidal records of 'sea slugs' (nudibranchs and allied opisthobranch gastropods) from northern North Island, New Zealand, Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 50 (p.62)
  • Morley, M.S. Apr/2004 A population of the sea slug Ercolania felina, Poirieria, 30 (p.9)
  • Marshall, B.A. 1995 Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F.W. Hutton in The New Zealand Journal of Science, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 25 (p.498)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.283)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil